Shadow of Love

The myth of Jason and Medea has endured for centuries-etched in bronze, ink, and tragedy. It is the story of a hero's betrayal and a woman's vengeance, of poisoned gowns, slain children, and a love turned monstrous. But myths, like stone, forget the details they choose not to carve. Shadow of Love is not a retelling to absolve Medea or redeem Jason-it is a story about memory: how it survives, how it scars, and how it heals.
Years after his triumphs have faded, Jason is no longer the golden hero of legend. Haunted by regret, he sets sail not for conquest, but for atonement, retracing the path of the Argonauts across lands marked by both love and ruin. From Corinth to Colchis, from forgotten isles to oracular mountains, his journey is one of planting truth like seeds-nurturing remembrance in the places where it was lost.
Medea, so often reduced to fury and magic, emerges here as a woman of wisdom, grief, and enduring humanity. Her voice echoes through the novel, not as the condemned villain of the past, but as a presence that refuses to be erased. Through 61 chapters, Shadow of Love explores the landscapes of remorse and reconciliation. It is a meditation on the quiet courage it takes to forgive the unforgivable-beginning with oneself-and on the ways love can persist, even when burned by betrayal.
This is not a myth undone. It is a myth unburied. For readers of Madeline Miller's Circe and Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls, this is a human-centered reimagining of one of Greece's most enduring legends. It asks us to look beyond the binary of hero and villain, and to see the flawed, yearning, profoundly alive people beneath the masks of myth. Step aboard Jason's ship once more. Sail the shadowed seas.
Follow the flame of a love that, even in darkness, still knows how to light the way.